Bulimba Creek Environment Fund

The Bulimba Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee (B4C) cordially invites you to support B4C’s long-term sustainable community involvement in the care and improvement of the urban environment on Brisbane’s Southside.

B4C Overview

Bulimba Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee (B4C) is a voluntary not-for-profit community-based environmental organisation that is committed to the protection and enhancement of our natural environment. Bulimba Creek Catchment is one of the largest creek catchments in the Brisbane area, covering 122 km², stretching from the suburbs of Hemmant and Murarrie in the North to Kuraby and Runcorn in the South. Bulimba Creek consists of eight main tributaries and five wetland systems, and flows continuously to the Brisbane River and ultimately Moreton Bay.

B4C’s philosophy holds that communities, government, educational institutions, industry and corporations must work together to make real and positive environmental change. Through these networks, B4C is creating a new self-funded professional direction for catchment management, which ensures sustainability for the organisation, its stakeholders and importantly the environment in which we work and derive our healthy lifestyle.

Achievements to date

255,000 trees planted
362 haof habitat created
426 haof urban bushland areas protected
288,000 volunteer hours worked
55,000 trees propagated by nursery
2002-5 Healthy Waterways Community Award Winner
2004 Australia Day Award for Best Community Group
2003 Queensland Landcare Award Runner-up

The Bulimba Creek Environment Fund

The Bulimba Creek Environment Fund was established to accept tax-deductible donations in support of a community-driven commitment to deliver critical environmental outcomes through socially and ethically sensitive community programs. The Fund enables the B4C to complete the extensive bushland and wildlife protection, rehabilitation and enhancement works, environmental education programs, social and community development initiatives, ecological sustainable urban planning and cultural heritage programs.

A Message From John Schluter Bulimba Creek Environment Fund Patron

You Can Become a Partner with the B4C by making a contribution to the Bulimba Creek Environment Fund. The Fund can receive gifts of money, machinery or property etc, and all donations over $2 are tax-deductible.

Your donation can support new and original community driven initiatives, including…..

Rehabilitation & Habitat Creation

Our rehabilitation and habitat works are based on a strategic plan funded by the Natural Heritage Trust. The plan identifies key environmental areas to protect, enhance or rehabilitate, including the conservation of bushlands, wetlands and waterway corridors. To date the plan has been responsible for hundreds of thousands of trees and plants put in the soil.

Biodiversity Protection

Unique wildlife and plants are the envy of capital cities throughout the world. We are the biodiversity capital of Australia. We have 523 wildlife species (229 are significant), 1500 native plants (124 are significant). Only a collaborative effort can ensure conservation for this wonderful natural heritage. With your help the fund can make its contribution to save lives and habitats.

Indigenous Cultural Heritage Program

Indigenous Cultural Heritage Program

The fund is currently resourcing a traditional owner and knowledge holder for cultural heritage surveys, rehabilitation consultation and the increase of cultural awareness. The fund employs Shane Coghill who has genealogical connections to the Koenpal and Ueggarah people as well as being formally educated in archaeology and anthropology. Shane is currently conducting cultural heritage surveys on 6 key sites throughout the catchment and has held three community reconciliation workshops

Environmental Conservation Fund

B4C has successfully campaigned for the protection 426 hectares of urban bushland. The environment fund is committed to protecting urban bushland areas through community education, public awareness campaigns and where necessary legal support. The fund is currently providing financial and administrative support for Minnippi Against Development – a coalition of community and environmental groups actively protecting a 125 hectare bushland, floodplain and wetland system, with Australia’s densest populated squirrel glider colony at Minnippi.

Environmental Education

The fund is currently funding the delivery of grass roots curriculum-based education experiences by our landcare professionals. These initiatives include the formation of an environmental catchment photo competition, live animal display with wildlife and habitat experts and the construction of school based waterwise gardens in conjunction with the teaching of the principles of sustainability and nature conservation. Weekly primary school presentations and guided catchment bus tours are now undertaken. We could greatly improve this program with further funding.

Social & Community Development

The fund is used to assist the support of long term unemployed and people with disabilities. Through its community nursery and environmental services unit, B4C offers occupational opportunities and training in horticulture, nursery management, fauna habitat creation, waterway/wetland, bushland rehabilitation and management. Training is also given in administration, office management and computers.

How you can help?

· Make a financial donation - All donations over $2 are fully tax deductible. If you would like to make a difference download our donation form.

· Gifts of property – there is financial incentives for the donation of property such as land, shares, buildings, machinery etc. For further information please contact our office

· Corporate Sponsorship – B4C has many sites suitable for corporate rehabilitation support and community open days. For further information please contact our office

· Payroll deductions – B4C can assist you in a program that employees make automatic small regular deductions at the end of each pay period. For further information please contact our office

Contact for New Contributors

Bulimba Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee

PO Box 5

Carina

QLD 4152

Ph. (07) 3420 4800

Fax (07) 3420 4811

Email b4c@bulimbacreek.org.au

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Bulimba Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee, Inc.
PO Box 5, Carina, QLD 4152 | Phone: (07) 3420-4800 | Fax: (07) 3420-4811
E-mail: b4c@bulimbacreek.org.au | ABN: 46 101 092 637

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